Out Of The Ground

The concerted attack of Msomi, Monare and Letsoalo on COSATU was a little bit like the Israeli attack on Lebanon. They had the freedom of three of the best weapon platforms that bourgeois Imperialism could afford: the City Press, The Star, and the Mail and Guardian, armed with the best verbal stand-off ordnance, calculated to do as much damage as possible without any danger to the brave keyboard warriors. Then to their surprise “out of the ground” like Hezbollah came the resistance. What the three thought they had taken, they could not hold. A good example of the fighting spirit of COSATU can be found in the linked short and direct statement of COSATU’s North West Province. The bourgeoisie and their stooges are going to learn not to mess with the organised South African proletariat. COSATU scored another victory yesterday when the five remaining comrades in court in relation to the border blockade of Swaziland last April were released with all charges dropped. These comrades included Comrade Joe Nkosi, COSATU’s First Deputy President, who is one of those who have been carelessly attacked in the above newspapers. See the linked document, which contains both COSATU’s statement and that of the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN). Returning to the Israeli colonialist aggressions and what he rightly calls the “infamous Zionist media shield”, Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli exile in London writes: “Somehow, since the war began, since Israel revealed once again its murderous tendencies and Hezbollah proved to be the new Robin Hood, these voices are caving in.” He is saying that the Imperialists are being out-written as well as out-fought and that as a result their arrogance is disappearing. See his extraordinary article by using the link below. On the anti-Imperialist side there is no necessity to shrink from the truth. It is true that the Israeli colonialists have devastated Lebanon with their cowardly bombing, but they have not destroyed the people. Link to this eye-witness report below. Click on these links: COSATU North West response on the political environment (271 words) SSN and COSATU, Dropping of charges against 5 COSATU leaders (682 words) Cosmic Judeo Bunker No More, Gilad Atzmon, Counterpunch (1554 words) Journey to South Lebanon, Ramzi Kysia, Beirut, Counterpunch (1001 words)